Water motor



NOV 3 i D. JONES WATER MOTOR Filed 1924 2 Sheets-sheet DCI IIDO DOD 3mm! John .D. Jones.

Nov. 3,1926 6 1,560,166 J. D. JONES WATER MOTOR Filed Dec. 16 6221 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 3, 19 25.

f attains JOHN D. JONES, or HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS.

WATER MOTOR.

Application filed December 16, 1924. Serial No. 756,276.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JoHN D. Jones, a citizen of the United States, residing at Highland Park, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water Motors, of which the following is a specification.

The present invent-ion appertains to a water motor which is designed particularly to be inserted in a stream or the like in order to operate machinery from the power generated by the moving water.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a mechanism of this nature which requires very little if any attention on the part of an operator and which is provided with means whereby the water wheel is maintained at the surface of the water so as to gain the maximum effectiveness.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a mechanism of this na ture having a very simple and efficientconstruction, one which is reliable in operation, inexpensive to construct, strong, durable, not liable to become out of order and well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a structure from which the power generated may be easily taken.

A still further important object of the in vention is to provide a mechanism of this nature wherein the working parts associated with the water wheel may be changed as to the direction of their operation by shifting the water wheel.

With the above and numerous other ob jects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the mechanism embodying the features of my invention, a portion of the roof or upper plat form being broken away so as to show the parts therebelow,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical section taken centrally through the device,

Figure 3 is a section taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail view showing the mounting of one of the journals of the shaft of the power wheel.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that the stream is to flow between abutments A which are separated so as to concentrate the passage of the stream through a comparatively small space in which is located the power wheel I which 1s rotatable on and with a shaft S carried by journal blocks 5. It is to be noted that the shaft is disposed off center of these journal boxes 5 as is clearly illustrated in Figure 4 so that they may be turned around to a position such as indicated by dotted line in V Figure 4 to shift the position of the power wheel. These journal boxes are disposed in guide ways 6 being held at the proper height by pins 7 insertable in the apertures V 8. Thus the height of the shaft may be varied as to its lowermost position. The journal 5 and pins 7, therefore, form a stop mechanism regulating the lowermost posi tion at which the shaft S may be located.

This shaft, at both times, is however, sup;

ported by means of floats F which are positioned in wells 10 in communication with the stream through passageways 11 indicated in Figure 1 by dotted lines. These floats F may be of any preferred construction and are provided on their tops with journals 13 for receiving the ends of the shaft S. Links 14 yieldingly connect the floats to guides 15 movable in the vertically disposed ways 16 at the ends of the wells 10. The floats F are constructed with sufficient buoyancy so as to maintain the wheel W in relation to the surface of the water indicated at 18 by a dotted line in Figure 2. Adjacent each journal 5 there is disposed on the shaft to rotate therewith a gear 19. On each side of the gear 19 there is disposed a chain 20 trained over sprockets 21.

By changing the journals 5 it will be seen that the gears 19 may be placed so as to mesh with either of the chains and thus separate machinery could be operated or the same machinery reversed. The power from these chains imparted thereto by the water wheel WV may be taken off in any suitable manner, one means being shown by way of example in Figure 3 wherein a chain 23 is trained over a sprocket 24 of the same shaft with the upper sprocket 21 and then trained over another sprocket 25 from which power may be taken in a number of different ways;

It will be apparent from the foregoing that I have devised a water motor having a novel construction which will be possessed of a very simple and efiicient construction that is durable and effective under all conditions and which is not liable to readily get out of order. This novel and useful construction embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of invention and the above description, and while I have in the present instance shown and described a preferred embodiment of it which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it 18 to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the inv tion hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A Water motor ofthe class described including a water wheel, a shaft for the water wheel, floats upon which the ends of the shaft are journaled, abutments at opposite sides of the water wheel and having wells for the floats, guideways in the abutments, and the guide means associated with the floats and movable in said guideways.

2. In a water motor .of the class described, a shaft, supports havingguides for the shaft, blocks on the shaft movable in the guides, said shaft passing throughthe blocks off center so that they may be reversed for shifting; the shaft, a gear on the shaft, and chains on opposite sides of and selectively enga-gcable by the gear upon reversal of the blocks.

3. In a water motor of the class described, a shaft, a gear on the shaft, a chain trained adjacent the gear, means for shifting the shaft to place the gear in and out of mesh with the chain, and means for journaling the ends of the shaft.

d. In a water motor of the class described, a water wheel, a shaft of the water wheel, a pair of floats, wells for the floats, and means for journaling the shaft on the "5. In a water motor of the class described, a water wheel, a shaft for the water wheel, a pairof floats, wells for the floats.

In a i er motor of the class described, a she a gear on the shaft, :1 chain adjacent the tr, passing through said blocks off center thereof, guide ways for said blocks whereby they may be shifted to shift the shaft and place the gear thereon either in meshor outof mesa with the chain, floats for supporting the ends of the shaft, and guide means yieldingly associated with the floats. 8. In a .water motor of the class described, a shaft, a gear on the'shaft, a pair through which the shaft extends cent 1, guide ways for the bloc said blocks being capable of being turned. to shift the position of the shaft, and a pair of chains trained to be disposed one on each side of the gear so that when the s raft is shifted it is meshed with one chain and out of mesh with the other. i

9. In a water motor of the class described, a shaft, a gear on the shaft, a pair of blocks through which the shaft extends off center, guide ways for the blocks, said bloclts'bein capable of being tnrned to shift the position of the shaft, a pair of chains trained to be disposed one on each side of the gear so that when the shaft is shifted it is meshed with one chain and out of mesh with the other, floats for the ends of the shaft, wells for the floats, and means yieldingly attached to the float for guiding the same in the wells so as to hold them at spaced relation to the walls of the wells.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN D.JONES.

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